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Still going strong after four decades, The Rolling Stones are the ultimate rock band. The Rough Guide to The Rolling Stones explores every aspect of the music, and charts how Mick, Keith and the boys invented rock stardom. Features include: The Story: From the blues clubs of 60s Chelsea to the world tours and millionaire mansions, The Music: 50 essential songs and the stories behind them, plus the albums, bootlegs, soundtracks and solo projects, The Entourage: the girlfriends, managers and musicians, from Jerry Hall and Marianne Faithful to Andrew Loog Oldham and Nicky Hopkins, The Rolling Review: the movies, books and websites - all the Stones info you'll ever need. This Rough Guide leaves no stone unturned.
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Sean Egan is a journalist specialising in popular music and tennis. He has written for, Billboard, Billboard.com, Classic Rock, Discoveries, Goldmine, Record Collector, RollingStone.com, Serve And Volley, Sky Sports, Tennis World, Uncut and Vox. He is the author of books on The Verve, The Animals, Jimi Hendrix, The Creation, songwriters and The Rolling Stones (The Making Of Let It Bleed - MQ Publications; 2005)
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Maybe it was the quite disparate social backgrounds and musical tastes of the individuals who came together to form The Rolling Stones in the early Sixties that has contributed to their sustained invention and longevity. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Maybe it was the quite disparate social backgrounds and musical tastes of the individuals who came together to form The Rolling Stones in the early Sixties that has contributed to their sustained invention and longevity. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
good for discography history
and excellent section on quotes from those involved with the Stones mainly wives and girlfriends
good addition to any Stones fans library
and excellent section on quotes from those involved with the Stones mainly wives and girlfriends
good addition to any Stones fans library
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Good Overview of All Things Stones
25 Dec 2006
Format:Paperback
The Rough Guide series is ambitous, to say the least. For an author to teach a reader ALL there is to know about a band that's literally been around since most of us were babies is a daunting task. What to put in? What to leave out? Magically, the author has done a pretty darn good job covering the greatest rock and roll band of all time (minus one in my opinion, as I give the Beatles a slight edge). From the beginnings to the present, every album, every song, every relationship, is covered. Sidebars contain useful information on topics such as the difference between rock and roll and rhythm and blues and put the RS story in historical context. This is an excellent reference guide for a casual listener as well as someone who owns most of the Stones material, as I do. And though I think the author is unduly harsh in his assessment of the Stones' modern works, I can respect his opinion as someone who has obviously done his homework. Lots of good photos and illustrations augment this text. A fun book that would make a great gift for any Stones fan. I guess I'll have to go out and buy the Beatles Rough Guide now.
Four and a half stars. Recommended.
Four and a half stars. Recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Just about gets it right
29 Aug 2010
Format:Paperback
Egan is a thoughtful, expansive writer when tackling the phenomena of the Stones, from their humble beginnings as a low-key blues band at Alexis Korner's get-togethers to world-conquering Rock Gods. He provides an album-by-album guide, writes detailed summaries of fifty of his favorite tracks, and provides an interesting guide to people in places in their lives, from prominent blues influences and girlfriends to the lowliest engineer. He only falters by uniformly condemning their work from Steel Wheels on when it occasionally deserves better, claiming an eight-year recording gap between Bridges to Babylon and A Bigger Bang, when in fact they recorded over forty new tracks and included a number of them on the Forty Licks greatest hits compilation in 2003, and his claim the Stones never came up with an album similar to Bob Dylan that tackled the dilemmas of aging a la Time Out of Mind, when in fact Voodoo Lounge fits the bill quite nicely. Philip Norman may be a more stylistic writer and Chris Sanford a more minimalist wit, but in all this the best Stones book for a solid summation of their career to 2006.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Good for both newbies and long-time Stones fans
10 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
I bought this in Chicago about four years ago and read most of it on the flight back to DC. That illustrates how well readers can dip into this book on public transportation, a plane, the bath tub, by the pool, etc.
It was by no means my first book on the Stones yet I still learned a lot, so this will still appeal to those who think they know a lot about the Stones. And for diehard Stones junkies, it's a perfect gift to give to convince Stones newbies why this is still "the greatest rock & roll band in the world."
My only complaint--and it's a minor one--is that there's a certain English snarkinees and way too many jabs at America, which i many ways, is the country that made the Stones. Why do I see this time and time again from British writers? It's a sort of immature defensiveness that's highly irritating.
It was by no means my first book on the Stones yet I still learned a lot, so this will still appeal to those who think they know a lot about the Stones. And for diehard Stones junkies, it's a perfect gift to give to convince Stones newbies why this is still "the greatest rock & roll band in the world."
My only complaint--and it's a minor one--is that there's a certain English snarkinees and way too many jabs at America, which i many ways, is the country that made the Stones. Why do I see this time and time again from British writers? It's a sort of immature defensiveness that's highly irritating.
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